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Retro TV W/C 19th February 2010

Barry Murphy returns once more to trawl the TV and radio guides (so you don't have to), finding anything worth tuning into this week. All listings are for UK terrestrial TV, Freeview and national radio, with the shows running from Friday 19th February to Thursday 25th February 2010.

Highlights of the week

Not much to highlight this week I'm afraid. The last in the four-part series Latin Music USA (BBC 4. Friday 19th, 9pm & 1.15am) looks at how Latin pop was born in Miami, created by Cuban immigrants fleeing Fidel Castro, and how it has impacted on the worlds of music, business, fashion and media across the Americas and the world.

Also, not to be missed this week, food writer and Modculture regular Stacie Stewart is one of the competitors to become this year's Masterchef (BBC 1. Wednesday 24th, 8pm). Best of luck Stacie from all at the site.

Latin Music USA (4/4) – BBC 4. 9.00pm – 10.00pm (Repeated 1.15am)Documentary exploring how Cuban immigrants in Miami popularised the genre, creating a crossover pop sound that launched it into the mainstream. Featuring a look at how Latin songs began cropping up in everything from TV show Miami Vice to the film Scarface.

Skippy: Australia's First Superstar – BBC 4. 10.30pm – 11.30pmAfter its initial domestic airing in the late 1960s, 128 countries bought the rights to air Australian children's TV series Skippy the Bush Kangaroo. This documentary discovers the tremendous impact the programme had on its young viewers, while surviving cast members discuss their experience of working with the show's stars.

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet – ITV 4. 9.00pm – 11.35pmDouble bill of the classic comedy. The gang travels to the Asian paradise of Laos to carry out some major repairs.

Latin Music USA (4/4) – BBC 4. 11.55pm – 12.55amDocumentary exploring how Cuban immigrants in Miami popularised the genre, creating a crossover pop sound that launched it into the mainstream. Featuring a look at how Latin songs began cropping up in everything from TV show Miami Vice to the film Scarface.

Radio

Sounds of the 60s – BBC Radio 2. 8.00am – 10.00amBrian Matthew spins two hours of hits, B -sides and album tracks.

And the Academy Award Goes to… (1/3) – BBC Radio 4. 10.30am – 11.00amThe Deer Hunter. Paul Gambaccini tells how the film The Deer Hunter, starring Robert DeNiro, Meryl Streep and Christopher Walken, came to win the Oscar for best picture of 1978 at the Academy Awards.

Film: Holiday on the Buses (1973) – ITV 1. 12.05pm – 1.45pmThe third and last in the series of successful big screen spin offs from the popular 70s sitcom. Stan, Jack and Inspector Blake are fired from the bus depot. Finding work at a holiday camp, Stan and Jack are horrified to discover that their arch enemy Blakey, has also got a job there as head of security.

Rising Damp – ITV 3. 6.25pm – 6.55pmRigsby's divorce comes through, and he wastes no time in proposing to Ruth – but makes the mistake of asking his brother to be best man.

Legends: the Dankworths – BBC 4. 10.00pm – 11.00pmShowing as a tribute to Johnny Dankworth, who died earlier this month aged 82, this programme celebrates the career of the jazz duo he formed with his wife Cleo Laine.

Mad Men (5/13) – BBC 4. 11.00pm – 11.45pmSeries three. The Fog. Betty goes to the hospital to give birth, but experiences strange dreams when she is placed under anaesthetic. Duck tries to lure Pete and Peggy to his new firm.

Storyville: The Most Dangerous Man in America – BBC 4. 11.45pm – 1.15amDocumentary about leading Vietnam War strategist Daniel Ellsberg, who in 1971 concluded the war was based on decades of lies, and leaked 7,000 pages of top-secret documents to the New York Times.

Folk America (1/3) – BBC 4. 11.30pm – 12.30amBirth of a Nation. Exploring the revival of American folk music, beginning with the recording boom of the 1920s.

Tuesday 23rd February

TV

Film: The Destructors (1968) – Film4. 5.20pm – 7.10pmSci-fi adventure starring Richard Egan. A government agent is called in when the rubies needed to power a top-secret laser gun are stolen by Communist spies.

Grey Gardens (1976) – More4. 10.00pm – 11.50pmMaysles Brothers film focusing on the reclusive aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Onassis, who talk to each other in a private language and shun the rest of the world, living in squalor with an army of cats. One of the Maysles' most celebrated films.

Newswipe with Charlie Brooker (6/6) – BBC 4. 10.30pm – 11.00pmThe acid-tongued TV critic takes a caustic look at the way the news is covered in the media.

Folk America (2/3) – BBC 4. 1.50am – 2.50amThis Land is Your Land. Exploring the increasingly political edge adopted by folk music after the Depression and the emergence of artists Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger.

Bellamy's People (6/8) – BBC 2. 10.00pm – 10.30pmThe satirical Radio 4 comedy series Down the Line, in which Rhys Thomas plays phone-show host DJ Gary Bellamy, transfers to the small screen as he leaves his studio to meet some of his callers. Featuring Paul Whitehouse, Charlie Higson, Felix Dexter, Lucy Montgomery and Simon Day.

Newswipe with Charlie Brooker (6/6) – BBC 4. 10.00pm – 10.30pmNew series. The acid-tongued TV critic takes a caustic look at the way the news is covered in the media.

Folk America (2/3) – Blowin' in the Wind – BBC 4. 1.30am – 2.30amIn the 1960s a new generation, spearheaded by Bob Dylan, took folk music into the charts.